Acronyms found in the Nazi-Era Cultural Property Project records

A ACA - Allied Commission for Austria ACAO - Allied Cultural Affairs Officer ACLS - American Council of Learned Societies AEF - Allied Expeditionary Force AFHQ - Allied Force Headquarters AKB - Allied Kommandatura Berlin AMG - Allied Military Government AMSSO - Air Ministry Special Signals Office

B BAOR - British Army on the Rhine BICO - Bipartite Control Office

C CA - Civil Affairs [War Office] CAME - Conference of Allied Ministers of Education CCCG - Control Commission for Germany [British Element] CIOS - Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee

CCAC (L) - Combined Civil Affairs Committee, London CCNA - Combined Committee for French North and West African Civil Affairs COGA - Control Office for Germany and Austria CORC - Coordinating Committee - Allied Control Authority CRE - Corps of Royal Engineers

D DCA - Directorate for Civil Affairs [War Office] DMI - Directorate of Military Intelligence DP - Displaced Persons DSK - Devisenschutzkommando

E EAC - European Advisory Commission ECO - Educational and Cultural Organisation EIPS - Economic and Industrial Planning Staff ERR - Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg ETO - European Theatre of Operations ETOUSA - European Theatre Operation United States Army EWD - Economic Warfare Department [Foreign Office]

F FO - Foreign Office

G GAF - German Air Force GRO - German Restitution Offices

I I A and C - Internal Affairs and Communications IARA - Inter-Allied Reparations Agency IGCR - Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees ISTD - Interservice Topographical Department

J JIC - Joint Intelligence sub-Committee JRSO - Jewish Restitution Successor Organisation JRU - Jewish Relief Unit [of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad] JSMW - Joint Staff Mission Washington JTC - Jewish Trust Corporation

K KVA - Kriegsverwaltungsassessor [Kunstschutz]

M MEW - Ministry of Economic Warfare MFA and A - Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives

N NSDAP - National Socialist German Workers’ Party

O OKW - Supreme Command of the Armed Forces [Germany] OIRP - Office Interallié des Restitutions et Prestations ORC - Overseas Reconstruction Committee OSS - Office of Strategic Services

P PID - Political Intelligence Department PW - Prisoners of War

R R DR - Reparations, Deliveries and Restitutions Division

S SACMED - Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean SCAEF - Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force SCAP - Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers SEAC - South East Asia Command SHAEF - Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force SMGO - Senior Military Government Officer [British Military Government in Austria/Germany too?] SPCOM/FED - Special Committee of the Allied High Commission for Germany SS - Schutzstaffel TWED - Trading with the Enemy Department

UK - United Kingdom UN - United Nations UNRRA - United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

US - United States USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

WJC - World Jewish Congress WO - War Office

ZEO - Zonal Executive Offices

Records selection, introduction and descriptions reproduced by the kind permission of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for purpose of the information provided.